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Lieutenant DAVID WYLIE GAIRNS

Service Number: 217949
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

'B' Sqn., 2nd Lothians and Border Horse

Date of Death

Died 22 February 1943

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ENFIDAVILLE WAR CEMETERY

VIII. C. 2.

Tunisia

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of David Wylie Gairns and Elspet Wilson Gairns; husband of Nancy Ferguson Gairns, of Stepps, Lanarkshire. Solicitor.
  • Personal Inscription "I'LL WALK BESIDE YOU, DARLING, TO THE LAND OF DREAMS" NANCY
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Buried or commemorated at

ENFIDAVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Tunisia
Number of casualties: 1551
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